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if this is your version of the end of times, I suggest you take a look out your window at the burning hellscape of western north america and other locations around the globe. I also hope you’re not too attached to birds or polar bears.

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My world ends whenever someone doesn’t understand hyperbole

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Now I become death, destroyer of literary device

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You became Death? How did you manage that?

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This makes me want to just set myself on fire!

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birds or polar bears

Phew! Luckily I just like penguins…

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I have bad news. Penguins are a hybrid of bird and polar bear.

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Even the name Penguin is a hybrid of polar and penguin.

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How am I devaluing what they are saying by pointing out there are much, much, more serious signals of a looming apocalypse?

It’s like worrying about the mosquito biting you in a room full of blood thirsty canibals.

I realize I shifted off topic, but they were getting a bit dramatic with the end of times bit

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